Working with undocumented APIs is a pain in the ass

03/13/19, 3:05 AM

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I've been working with the REST API found in the Show Box android app used for watching free movies, tv shows, etc. It is a very popular app but there isn't an online web version, so I used a proxy and started reverse engineering the API to make my own. Here is my reddit post (very new to actual reddit xD): https://www.reddit.com/r/showbox/comments/b0gcku/working_on_a_web_app_of_show_box Here is the web app so far: *THIS IS NOT DONE YET. -> https://sb-web.tk --- Here is the GitHub boi: https://github.com/Bunnbuns/Show-Box-Web-App

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herronjo

(he/him)

03/13/19, 3:05 AM

Did you know that the majority of the updated APIs of STiBaRC are largely undocumented, and are left to creators to figure out by reverse engineering my usage of it? There's also the occasional documentation on the dev Slack, but it's all very vague.

Bunnbuns

03/13/19, 3:05 AM

@herronjo Yeah, but Show Box doesn't even show how they use it. I barely have some of the REST requests let alone source code. STiBaRC is all on GitHub, Show Box has almost nothing and the source of the API changes often.

EncloCreations

03/13/19, 3:05 AM

Fix the id issue herronjo